| Sounds Like Life | ||||
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| Studio album by Darryl Worley | ||||
| Released | June 9, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | Big Studio, Nashville, TN; The Mooselodge, Goodlettsville, TN. | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Stroudavarious | |||
| Producer | James Stroud | |||
| Darryl Worley chronology | ||||
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Sounds Like Life is American country music singer Darryl Worley's sixth studio album. It was released on June 9, 2009 by the Stroudavarious label.[1] The first single "Tequila on Ice" peaked at #44 in 2008, and the second single "Sounds Like Life to Me" became his first Top 40 country hit since "I Just Came Back from a War" in 2007. Worley co-wrote eight of the songs on this album.[2] Sounds Like Life is produced by Stroudavarious Records founder James Stroud, who also produced Worley's first two albums.
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"Tequila on Ice" was released as the first single from the album. It peaked at #44 on the country charts in mid-2008.
Co-written by Worley with Wynn Varble (who has also written several of Worley's other singles) and Phil O'Donnell, "Sounds Like Life to Me" is the album's second single release. It has become Worley's first Top 20 country hit since "I Just Came Back from a War" in late 2006-early 2007.
"Best of Both Worlds" was released as the album's third single in early 2010, and reached a peak of #43 on the country charts in March 2010.
Worley wrote the majority of the tracks with his regular co-writers, including Wynn Varble and Don Poythress. The final track, "You Never Know", was written by Jimmy Yeary and Mike McGuire (respectively the lead singer and drummer of country band Shenandoah) about the death of former Shenandoah bass guitarist Ralph Ezell, who died in 2007. Worley said that the song was "dead-on" for him, and thought that its second very closely paralleled the relationship between him and his brother.[3] Track 3, "Slow Dancing with a Memory", was carried over from Worley's last album, 2006's Here and Now.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic rated the album three-and-a-half stars out of five. He considered it an improvement in quality over Worley's albums for DreamWorks Records and thought that the slower-tempo songs such as "Tequila on Ice" worked best. Of those songs, he said, "even if they're cluttered with clichés, they're executed well, emphasizing Worley's low-key charms[.]"[4]
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 | 172 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 26 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums | 35 |
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| 2008 | "Tequila on Ice" | 44 | — | ||||||
| 2009 | "Sounds Like Life to Me" | 11 | 84 | ||||||
| 2010 | "Best of Both Worlds" | 43 | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
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